Author: lskramer

CATEGORIES: ISUcommx

Professor Karla Ruden’s Learning Community Features Design Analysis Assignment

In Karla Ruden’s English 150 Common Threads Learning Community, there is stressed analysis of design features of buildings and artwork on campus in Assignment #4. The students are then encouraged to think of art in textiles or clothing they would be designing or that others had designed. The photo features a mini cocktail dress designed in the ’80s by Oleg Cassini. Peyton Chilton, a Common Threads … Continue reading Professor Karla Ruden’s Learning Community Features Design Analysis Assignment

CATEGORIES: Creative Writing, Graduate Student News

Zara Chowdhary wins prized Parent-Writer Fellowship

Zara Chowdhary won the prized Parent-Writer Fellowship at the 2018 Writing Conference at Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.  The Parent-Writer Fellowships are intended to give parents the time and financial support to devote a week to themselves and their writing. Zara shared, “I just got back from the 2018 Writing Conference at Martha’s Vineyard … Continue reading Zara Chowdhary wins prized Parent-Writer Fellowship

CATEGORIES: Graduate Student News, RPC

PhD RPC Students, Tina Coffelt Present at ABC Conference

PhD students in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program (L-R) Bremen Vance, Mariah Kemp, Amanda Arp, Samantha Cosgrove, George Standifer, and Associate Professor Tina Coffelt presented Measuring Business Communication: Including Diverse Skills at the Association for Business Communication (ABC) conference in Miami, FL October 24-26, 2018.  Bremen Vance and Samantha Cosgrove also received Graduate Student … Continue reading PhD RPC Students, Tina Coffelt Present at ABC Conference

CATEGORIES: Alumni News

David Niedergeses

David Niedergeses completed his dissertation research, “Constructing collaborative ecologies: How selection, practice, and mediation assemble and shape social and collaborative software” before moving into a successful career in the software industry beginning with a position at IBM.  He is now a User Experience Manager at Workiva in Ames, IA, where he leads user research and … Continue reading David Niedergeses

CATEGORIES: Alumni News

Elizabeth Wardle

Elizabeth Wardle is Howe Professor and Director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami of Ohio.  Her research on transfer at Iowa State led her to develop the “writing about writing” method of teaching composition.  Her best-selling textbook is used widely, along with her co-edited book on “threshold concepts”.  Elizabeth earned her PhD … Continue reading Elizabeth Wardle

CATEGORIES: Alumni News

Clay Spinuzzi

Clay Spinuzzi is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing and the University of Texas at Austin, and teaches in the School of Information.  He studies workplaces and how people circulate information through them.  He’s written four books: Tracing Genres through Organizations (MIT), Network (Cambridge), Topsight (CreateSpace), and All Edge (Chicago).  Clay earned his PhD in Rhetoric … Continue reading Clay Spinuzzi

CATEGORIES: Alumni News

Scott Graham

Scott Graham, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, directs the Public Engagement and Science Communication Laboratory.  Scott’s recent book, The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry (University of Chicago Press), chronicles three years of ethnographic research and nearly ten years of archival research into interdisciplinary pain medicine and related public policy.  Scott received … Continue reading Scott Graham

CATEGORIES: Alumni News

Amy Harris-Tehan

As Researcher Development Coordinator, Amy does training and development for ISU’s Office of the Vice President for Research.  Previously, Amy did training for Ames Laboratory and ISU’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety.  Amy earned both a Bachelor’s degree in Technical Communication and a Master’s degree in Rhetoric, Composition, & Professional Communication from Iowa State.

CATEGORIES: Alumni News

Sharon Wiederanders

Sharon Wiederanders is an Information Architect at Garmin International, where she is the TechComm Coordinator for the fitness segment, serving as subject matter expert and content strategist.  Deliverables include printed and online manuals, graphical instructions, and video scripts.  Sharon also serves on the TechComm project review board and coordinates efforts of multiple authors.  Sharon graduated … Continue reading Sharon Wiederanders

CATEGORIES: Department Events

Literary Reading and Q&A about the Art of Fiction, Margot Livesey

Margot Livesey is the award-winning author of ten books, including a collection of stories, Learning by Heart, and eight acclaimed novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona, The House on Fortune Street, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, and Mercury, which was named a Best Book of 2016 by Kirkus Reviews, … Continue reading Literary Reading and Q&A about the Art of Fiction, Margot Livesey